Provide a journal of your 50 minutes of listening.
Provide a journal of your 50 minutes of listening.
Goal:
The goal is to listen and respond to 50 minutes of music you have not heard before.
You may use Youtube or other music sources.
Turn this in:
For each composition, list the composer, title, and the amount of time you listened. Give at least one sentence of reaction for each minute of music. (If the composer’s name or the musical title isn’t available, give the Youtube title.)
When writing your journal responses, consider responding to these questions:
Do you like/dislike the music? Can you explain why? Does it remind you of any music you heard in class?
Does it suggest an emotion or picture? What movie scene would it accompany? What instruments do you hear? What reaction do you have? Can you comment on any of the musical elements, such as melody, texture, form, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation?
Grading:
Grading will be based on completion of the 50 minutes of listening and the completion, clarity and thoughtfulness of your responses. (One sentence of response for each minute of music.)
Total listening time must be 50 minutes.
Listen to at least 5 minutes from each of the categories below.
You can search any of these titles, composers and topics on Youtube.
You do not need to listen to complete pieces. You might listen to three minutes of a 25-minute symphony, for example.
Category #1: Middle Ages/Renaissance/Music inspired by these time periods
Medieval music, or Medieval dance music, Medieval vocal or Medieval instrumental music
Hildegard von Bingen
Dies Irae
Renaissance Madrigal, Renaissance instruments or Renaissance dance music
Here is later music Inspired by music from the Middle Ages or Renaissance:
Schickele Madrigal
Compare the Madrigal “My Bonny Lass She Smileth ” and “My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth” (from 20th C)
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Variations (uses Dies Irae chant) (from the early 20th Century)
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique,mvmt. 5 (uses Dies Irae chant) (from the 19th Century)
Category #2 Baroque/Music Inspired by the Baroque
Telemann
J.S. Bach
Handel
Purcell, possibly “Dido and Aeneas” or “King Arthur”
Max Richter Vivaldi (21st Century re-imagining of Vivaldi 4 seasons)
Shostakovich Piano Prelude and Fugue (20th Century)
Bach “Toccata and Fugue in d minor” has been performed on a variety of instruments. You could listen and compare more than one version.
Baroquecore: This is a style that combines heavy metal rock with Baroque influences.
Category #3 Classical
Any music by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven
For the above composers, consider listening to piano sonatas, string quartets, piano trios, symphonies, operas. You can also youtube the composers name and an instrument, for example “Mozart guitar”.
Category #4 Romantic Composers:
Richard Straus: try Don Juan, Der Rosenkavalier Mahler: try symphony #5
Schubert: try the Trout Quintet or Death and the Maiden Verdi: try Tosca
Brahms: try piano trio, quartet or quintet
Category #5 20th-21st Century Composers:
Elgar: Try Enigma Variations or Cello Concerto Vaughan Williams: try Lark Ascending
Bernstein: try Divertimento, Mass Daugherty: Superman Symphony, Barbie
Bartok: string quartet Shostakovich: string quartet or piano trio
Barber: try Adagio for Strings, Violin Concerto, Overture to the School for Scandal, Hermit Songs
Gershwin: Try American in Paris or Rhapsody in Blue
Shostakovich Favorites include Jazz Suite: Waltz #2; Fantasia 2000: Shostakovich; Symphony #5 4th movement; String Quartet #8; piano trio #2; You can watch part of The Golden Age ballet, or the Lady Macbeth or Nose operas.
Category #6: Jazz
Duke Ellington Maria Schneider (big band)
Dave Brubeck Gordon Goodwin’s big phat band
Miles Davis Oscar Peterson (piano)(Round Midnight)
Billie Holiday Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet/Afro-Cuban jazz)
Bessie Smith John Coltrane
Louis Armstrong Sing, Sang, Sung
